howldog wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 05:02:06 GMT, Grizzlie Antagonist
>  wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:40:55 -0600, USA  wrote:
> >
> >>What is more disgusting than having women serving on police forces
is
> >>the fact that no one in the media will admit the obvious -- that
this
> >>female (like all females) was unable to control her gun or to
control
> >>the prisoner and as a result other people she was supposedly
> >>"protecting" were killed.
> >
> >
> >
> >I had a feeling all along that it was a female deputy - by the
> >sparseness of details that the news media was providing.  I said
that
> >to someone else today.
> >
> >If the authorities are going to hire women for law enforcement, why
do
> >they have to hire them from a real life applicant pool?
> >
> >Why don't they hire those ass-kicking chicks that they're always
> >showing on TV and in the movies?
>
>
> the flip side to this is of course, how the case finally ended, which
> was with a very brave woman who pretty much talked him into giving
> himself up, being held hostage by him for like 8 hours. Put any one
of
> us in her shoes and I dont know the outcome would have been as happy.

Those ass-kicking chicks they're always showing on TV and in the movies
(which are ostensibly about female "empowerment") are just there to
show some cleavage and bring in the teenage boys. Most of the
ass-kicking chicks I know are not the ones you'd like to see in a tight
leather suit anyway. ;-)

But I do know a lot of women that are brave enough, and empathetic
enough, to talk to a desperate man instead of kicking his ass, so maybe
there's room for all kinds of bravery in the world.



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